Colorado Revised Statutes Title 42. Vehicles and Traffic § 42-1-234. Electronic vehicle registration and titling--electronic transmission of vehicle lien information--authority--rules--electronic transactions fund--gifts, grants, and donations--repeal

(1)(a) On or before March 31, 2026, the department shall establish a system to allow the electronic transmission of registration, lien, and titling information for motor vehicles, off-highway vehicles, or special mobile machinery. On or before March 31, 2026, the system must support the ability to generate a title and registration for new leased vehicles and support the ability to generate a title for a lessee who purchases the lessee's leased vehicle without affecting the lessee's existing registration. On or before January 1, 2027, the system must support the ability to generate a new registration for a vehicle to a new lessee without modifying the title. Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, the department may adopt rules necessary for the implementation of this section, including rules to allow the department to:

(b) The department's approval of a third-party provider to register a vehicle or special mobile machinery, file or release liens, or issue any type of certificate of title must be evidenced by an agreement between the department and the third-party provider.

(c) In registering a vehicle or special mobile machinery, filing or releasing liens, or issuing any type of certificate of title, the third-party provider is acting as an agent of the department. The third-party provider shall collect and remit to the department all taxes and fees imposed by law to issue any type of certificate of title, file or release a lien, or to register the vehicle or special mobile machinery.

(d) A third-party provider may charge its clients a fee for each electronic registration transaction, lien transaction, or titling transaction. The client may charge a consumer the fee the client paid to the third-party provider if the fee charged to the consumer does not exceed the fee charged to the client.

(e) The department shall ensure that the addresses of program participants under part 21 of article 30 of title 24 are not released to third-party providers or the clients of third-party providers.

(2)(a) The department is authorized to seek and accept gifts, grants, or donations from private or public sources, including from third-party providers, for the purposes of this section; except that the department may not accept a gift, grant, or donation that is subject to conditions that are inconsistent with this section or any other law of the state. The department shall ensure that any funds contributed to the department for the implementation of the system for the electronic transmission of registration, lien, and titling information for motor vehicles, vehicles, off-highway vehicles, and special mobile machinery are:

(3)(a) The department need not promulgate rules, under subsection (1) of this section, that implement electronic transactions until the department has adequate money in the electronic transactions fund to implement the promulgated rules. The department shall, upon having adequate money in the fund, phase in implementation of this section as reasonable. The general assembly may appropriate money from the general fund or the highway users tax fund created in section 43-4-201 to implement this section.

(b) This subsection (3) does not affect any rules promulgated, or appropriations made, before July 1, 2019.

(4)(a) The electronic transactions fund, referred to in this subsection (4) as the “fund”, is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund consists of money that the general assembly may appropriate or transfer to the fund and money credited to the fund under this section.

(b) The state treasurer shall credit all interest and income derived from the deposit and investment of money in the fund to the fund.

(c) Subject to annual appropriation by the general assembly, the department may expend state money from the fund to implement and administer electronic transmission of registration, lien, and titling information in accordance with this section.

(5)(a) Subsections (2)(a) and (3) of this section and this subsection (5) will be repealed if the department fully implements this section. Upon fully implementing this section, the executive director of the department shall notify the revisor of statutes in writing of the date on which the condition specified in this subsection (5)(a) has occurred by e-mailing the notice to revisorofstatutes.ga@coleg.gov.

(b) Subsections (2)(a) and (3) of this section and this subsection (5) are repealed, effective upon the date identified in the notice that this section was fully implemented or, if the notice does not specify that date, upon the date of the notice to the revisor of statutes.